The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-12
Farm and Stock Notes.

cow in milk should never be driven
faster than walk. Good COWS have large
and well-filled udders, which cause pain to
them if they are hurried or driven on run.
The terms Durham" and ''Alderney,"
are no longer applied to cattle. The Dur
ham is now known as the ShOrthorn, and
the Attorney is now the Jersey and Guern-
sey.
Fine manure for crops is more valuable
than coarse. Hens can break up manure
better. perhaps, than any one of the machines
invented for the purpose. Scatter some wheat
over the pile and turn them on.
The fall is an excellent time for sowing
blue grass, about 10 pounds of seed being
sufficient for an acre. The ground should
be well prepared manured and narrowed
and the seed evenly broadcasted.
As soon as crop is taken off the first
duty is to go over the field and cut down all
the weeds in order to prevent them from
seeding, Every weed destroyed before it
seeds will save labor next season.
The original stock Of the beet occurs wild
on the shores of the Mediterranean sea, in
Greece, and grows wild III some of the islands
of the Atlantic ocean. This is the common
mangold, of which there are two sub spe-
cieS.
A practical farmer says that in setting
posts where great solidity is required he uses
gravel and small stones to fill around the
posts and then runs in thin water-lime NOR
tar, thus virtually Embedding the post in
rock, preventing decay and insuring solidity.
The black-top Spanish Merino is now being
bred extensively in West Virginia and Penn
sylvania. They yield delaine wool and the
carcass weighs about $50 pounds Breeders
who have stuck to the Spanish Merino for
years are now going pell-mell into breeding
black-tops.
The value of the hen manure from a single
bird for one year has been estimated at 15c.
At this rate the total value of the manure
from all the poultry i'll the country in 1880
would be $4,000, 900. The total value of
the fertilizers manufactured during the same
year was S23, $50, 1876
A New York horticultural society decided
that hogs are the most economical manure
makers in cases where the owners have tight
pens, and where refuse vegetable matter
gathered about the farm, including weeds,
sod, forest leaves, etc, is thrown in for the
animals to eat and trample on.
Any animal giving milk requires fire.
quent watering. While many cows in win
ter will only drink once or twice day. they
will in summer require water three times
morning noon and highland drink heart
| ilyeach time The water, even in summer,
is better for standing where it will be nearly
blood warm.
Sweet potatoes that are in the least man
neF affected by rot will not keep, and it is a
waste of labor to attempt to keep them A
temperature ranging between 60 and TO- is
correct, and only the best and smoothest
potatoes should be stored If kept in a
proper place, where the temperature is even
throughout the winter, it is only necessary
to put the potatoes in -four barrels and to
keep them dry.
Mr.. Crozier, of the Department of Agri-
culture, tells the Country Gentleman that
he has found field Of Bermuda grass with
heads well filled with ripe seed, ON stony,
sandy soil on the bank Of the Potomac, 20
miles below Washington. OF over 500 an
swers to circular sent out last winter by
the Commissioner of Agriculture to farmers
in the South, asking whether Bermuda had
been known tossed, less than dozen replied
that they had found seed, but always in
small quantities.